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Re:BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut ... by ProAm on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:55PM (#30773159)
> More toxic investors who think the world needs more ads, less investigative journalism.

You're talking on Hacker News where people routinely bypass paid content by posting workaround links. The same people who get angry when people stealing their SAAS subscriptions. This is the pot calling the kettle black.

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Re:BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut ... by ouid on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:04PM (#30773648)
I'm not sure that subscription fees are the panacaea to the proliferation of PR instead of journalism that you seem to think. When you had to pay for newspapers, they still had ads in them.
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